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Seafood Was The Spur For Man's First Migration
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 5-13-2005
| Roger Highfield
Posted on 05/12/2005 5:26:39 PM PDT by blam
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This is not a new idea. This is called the 'Coastal Route.' I'll post and excellent map that shows this as soon as I can find it.
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:26:41 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
"The international project shows - contrary to previous thinking - that early modern humans spread across the Red Sea from the Horn of Africa, along the tropical coast of the Indian Ocean towards the Pacific in just a few thousand years."
Wow - traffic must have been REALLY bad back then!
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:28:27 PM PDT
by
mlc9852
(Here we go AGAIN!)
To: blam
However, climate change seems likely to have reduced the Red Sea's shellfish stocks, driving them to seek better fishing grounds. Caused by the introduction of the first SUV, no doubt.
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:33:27 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: blam
The idea of coastal travel routes is also becoming the best explanation for human colonization of the New World ~14,000 years ago. It gives the Paleoindians a way around the ice sheets and a way to very quickly reach the tip of South America. It also conveniently explains traces of non-Indian peoples existing in the New World prior to that time. (If one group could skim the coasts or the edge of the pack ice, why couldn't others do it as well?)
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:35:10 PM PDT
by
Redcloak
(Over 16,000 served.)
To: Redcloak; SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:40:27 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Interestingly Europeans had come to America and established "fishing colonies" almost 100 years before the Pilgrims. Most were off the coast of maine, and they fished the same waters we do today, the Grand Banks.
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:44:21 PM PDT
by
ProudVet77
(Warning: Frequent sarcastic posts)
To: ProudVet77
Was that because they could no longer order brontosaurus burgers?
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:46:57 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
To: blam
A French genetics study comparing strains of leprosy-causing bacteria indicate that the disease may have begun in East Africa, not India as previously thought, and then spread to the other continents through European colonialism and the slave trade. Slavery was rampant throughout the entire middle east 3,000 years ago. How did European colonialism spread it to there from East Africa?
To: blam
Even then people preferred to live on the coast.
We must end immigration because America is out of room.
America has only so much good coastal real estate, and there is not enough to go around as it is.
To: DallasMike
" How did European colonialism spread it to there from East Africa? " Fast, intercontinental transportation?
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:57:27 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Blam, that was fascinating! Thanks for posting the link!
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:57:34 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: blam
I read years ago about the "aquatic ape theory". Basically human physiology dictates that at some point in our evolution we lived in the sea for an extended period. Some "aquatic hominid's" eventually left the sea and became homo sapien, others who stayed in the seas became the live bearing sea mammals. This subject is like global warming, maybe a hoax, but nevertheless, unprovable.
Whether or not one accepts evolution or creationism, it is interesting.
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:59:28 PM PDT
by
mmercier
(live and learn)
To: blam
The lure of a seafood diet may explain why the first people left Africa People left Africa because it was overpopulated.
They either had to fight others for place or flee.
Some chose to flee--or fought and lost, and then fled.
To: blam
Hell, I've been known to travel great distances in search of seafood.
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posted on
05/12/2005 6:04:30 PM PDT
by
Junior
(“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
To: Dog Gone
"Blam, that was fascinating! Thanks for posting the link!" Thanks.
That was done by and from the studies of Professor Stephen Oppenheimer. I've read two of his excellent books, Eden In The East and Out Of Eden. I highly recommend both.
Did you notice that he put the first entry to the US at 25-26,000 years ago?
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posted on
05/12/2005 6:04:52 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Mmmmm. Seafood causes me to migrate to it's source every time my wallet permits it. *CHOMP* :-)
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posted on
05/12/2005 6:05:40 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Help Nature to thin the herd. Eat a liberal.)
To: blam
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posted on
05/12/2005 6:08:36 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: Age of Reason
Eh, the population of Africa was hardly enormous when people started leaving; but the climate was really marginal and when it took a downturn it was tough going and motivated people to move on.
To: blam
Did you notice that he put the first entry to the US at 25-26,000 years ago? Yes, far before the conventional timetable of even 6 or 7 years ago.
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posted on
05/12/2005 6:10:29 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: blam
I'd walk a mile for a lobster with sidedishes of sea-bass and shrimp!
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
05/12/2005 6:17:15 PM PDT
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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